Special Committee for Professional Practice and Ethics

About us

The Committee
meets four times a year to discuss guidance on psychiatric
professional practice, including issues of policy into practice,
confidentiality, probity and conflicts of interest. Members of the
Committee are those who have expertise and interest in ethics,
confidentiality, quality standards and the relationship between
policy and practice. The Committee also has the additional function
of overseeing the accreditation decisions made by the College
Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI). The committee has links with
the College Centre for Quality Improvement, the UK Clinical Ethics
Network, the General Medical Council and the National Clinical
Assessment Service.

Queries / Meeting dates

If anyone has any queries concerning
ethical/confidentiality/professional practice issues that they
would like SCPPE to give advice on please contactHelen Phillips (hphillips@rcpsych.ac.uk). The
committee will aim to provide you with an answer within a month
however some queries may require additional consideration and
therefore will be discussed at the next committee
meeting.

The dates for the Special Committee
for Professional Practice and Ethics meetings scheduled in
2014 are: